Word: upping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Police Terror. Since they seized power in a lightning coup nearly 32 months ago, the colonels, who have pledged to restore Greece's ancient moral values, have reacted with outraged indignation to isolated reports of mistreatment of any of the 6,000 or so political prisoners who have passed...
With a dirty rag stuffed in her mouth to stifle her screams, Mrs. Tsirka testified, she was given some 21 blows. Then she was pushed downstairs to a filthy basement cell. There was barely room to breathe. Holding up the palms of her hands, she described the cell as "eleven...
Another witness was Petros Vlassis, a member of the far-left Lambrakis youth movement, one of the junta's special targets. After being beaten on the feet in the shower room on the roof of the Bouboulinas Street building where the tortures usually took place, he was forced to...
"Why can't I fall in love like any other man?" croaks Cockney Anthony Newley. Down in front, wondering right along with the singer, is his most devoted fan. "I know every song by heart," says Charlotte Ford Niarchos. "I sometimes think I could get up on the stage...
"He'd be ideal for the part," said the producers of a pop musical about Christ called Superstar. "After all, from pictures of Christ he looked like a well-turned-out Lennon." John Lennon, that is. Sure, he'd consider playing Jesus, the Beatle was reported to have...